• Own and articulate a clear product vision and strategy for payments, aligned with company objectives and growth plans. • Take a holistic view of the end-to-end payments experience, ensuring customer, operational, and platform considerations are tightly integrated. • Define and evolve the payments roadmap, balancing customer needs, regulatory requirements, operational scalability, and commercial outcomes. • Stay current on industry trends, emerging payment methods, and competitive offerings to inform strategy and prioritization. • Identify opportunities for cross-product alignment, standardization, and platform unification across the broader product portfolio. • Lead payments products through the full product development lifecycle, from discovery and ideation through launch and continuous improvement. • Partner closely with engineering and design to translate customer problems into well-defined requirements, epics, and user stories. • Prioritize the product backlog based on customer impact, business value, and technical feasibility. • Drive high-quality execution across multiple workstreams while maintaining a strong bias toward action. • Serve as the subject-matter expert for payments, including payment gateways, processors, payment facilitators, settlement, and funding flows. • Own integrations and relationships with major processors and partners (e.g., Adyen, Fiserv, Global Payments). • Ensure products are built with a strong understanding of payments operations, risk, compliance, and scalability. • Help shape the future of our payments infrastructure to support global growth. • Be the expert on the customer: deeply understand who is using our payments products, what problems they are trying to solve, and how success is measured. • Conduct market research, customer interviews, and data analysis to identify opportunities and validate solutions. • Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure product success across adoption, revenue, reliability, and customer outcomes. • Use product analytics, customer feedback, and operational data to inform prioritization and identify areas for improvement. • Present product strategy, progress, and performance to senior leadership and executive stakeholders. • Lead and influence cross-functional teams across engineering, design, sales, marketing, professional services, and customer success. • Act as the primary point of contact for payments products, aligning internal teams and external partners around shared goals. • Facilitate agile ceremonies and ensure teams are focused on delivering the highest-impact outcomes. • Partner with go-to-market teams to define value propositions, pricing inputs, and launch strategies for payments capabilities. • Create internal and customer-facing documentation, training materials, and presentations to support successful launches. • Drive adoption and ongoing success of payments products post-launch. • Foster a high-performance, collaborative culture focused on customer value and continuous improvement.

• Own the Flink Cloud Platform roadmap: Define and drive the product strategy and roadmap for enterprise-grade Flink capabilities including data-at-rest encryption (BYOK), client-side field-level encryption, managed disaster recovery, access controls, and audit logging notably. • Own the Flink Cloud Platform roadmap: Drive platform-level capabilities such as Flink compute pool management, workspace catalog design, and integration with Confluent Cloud's broader infrastructure (networking, identity, encryption platforms) • Drive enterprise customer adoption: Partner closely with field teams and strategic customers (including top-tier financial services and regulated industries) to understand requirements, close product gaps, and accelerate enterprise Flink adoption • Write product specifications: Author clear, precise PRD documents that translate complex customer and business requirements into well-scoped engineering deliverables • Collaborate cross-functionally: Work across security, identity, networking, and storage teams to ensure Flink integrates seamlessly with Confluent Cloud's enterprise capabilities. • Influence product strategy: Contribute to the overall Confluent Cloud Flink and DSP product strategy, identifying external market trends, competitive dynamics, and new opportunities • Measure success: Define and track key metrics for enterprise Flink adoption, working with data and analytics to inform prioritization decisions • Educate and enable: Partner with PMM, docs, and field enablement to ensure Confluent's sales and customer success teams can effectively position and support Flink enterprise capabilities

• Define and execute the multi-year roadmap architecture for ETL pipelines, telemetry, identity, storage, transformation, and activation layers • Partner with Engineering and Analytics Engineering to evolve scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient data architecture • Establish product requirements for client telemetry, event tracking standards, and data quality frameworks • Drive governance, privacy, and compliance alignment across retailer and advertiser data flows • Lead initiatives that improve data completeness, accuracy, and trust, especially where incomplete or inconsistent data impacts business KPIs • Develop and scale reporting, dashboards, and self-serve analytics capabilities for internal teams and external partners • Balance foundational platform investments with high-revenue product domains such as audience optimization, personalized advertising, rebates, and promotional systems • Align data strategy with adjacent domains including loyalty, rewards, ecommerce, challenges, and catalog intelligence • Evaluate trade-offs between technical debt reduction and new feature development to maximize long-term platform health and business impact • Partner with Data Science to deliver ML-powered personalization, audience optimization, and predictive insights • Translate experimentation, modeling, and algorithmic outputs into usable and explainable product features • Identify and prioritize AI opportunities that drive revenue growth, operational efficiency, and competitive differentiation • Mentor Product Managers focused on data and AI initiatives • Serve as the connective tissue between Product, Engineering, Data Science, Design, Revenue, and Operations • Establish intake, prioritization, and roadmap governance processes for data-related initiatives across the organization • Communicate vision, progress, and outcomes to executive leadership and stakeholders with clarity and credibility

CodePath is reprogramming higher education to create the first generation of AI-native engineers, CTOs, and founders. We deliver industry-vetted courses and career support centered on the needs of first-generation and low-income students. Our students train with senior engineers, intern at top companies, and rise together to become the tech leaders of tomorrow. With over 40,000 students and alumni from 1,000 colleges now working at 4,050 companies, we are reshaping the tech workforce and the industries of the future. CodePath is supported by Amazon, Andreessen Horowitz, Anthropic, Comcast, Google, JP Morgan Chase, Knight Foundation, Meta, New Profit, Salesforce, and The Studio at Blue Meridian Partners, among others. About the Role Location: Remote, United States Role Type: Full-Time Reporting to: Chief Product Officer Compensation: $200,000 to $232,000 per year CodePath partners with more than 80 colleges and universities to deliver rigorous, career-ready computer science courses for credit. Our institutional partnerships are one of the fastest-growing parts of our model, and as universities increasingly rely on CodePath to power their CS pathways, the product supporting those relationships needs to evolve. As Senior Product Manager, Higher Education, you will own and build the product that powers CodePath's university partnerships, defining how faculty and administrators set up and manage programs, how student progress is surfaced to instructors, and how we measure the effectiveness of our institutional model. You will work directly with our Institutional Partnerships, Curriculum, and Engineering teams to understand what university partners need and ship solutions that help them run CodePath programs effectively. It's a high-ownership role with a direct line to one of the fastest-growing parts of CodePath's business, and a real chance to shape how we scale across higher education. We are looking for a skilled PM with experience building and shipping enterprise products in the higher education space, using AI effectively in their workflow, and is energized by a bold vision to redefine the default pathways for Computer Science students to succeed in the era of AI. Key Activities - Define and own the institutional product roadmap, translating faculty, administrator, and operational needs into clear priorities - Run structured discovery with university partners and internal stakeholders; define success metrics and translate them into effective product requirements, prototypes, and shipped features - Design experiments to validate product bets, using qualitative signals from partners and quantitative data to make decisions and change course quickly - Serve as the connective tissue between Engineering, Data, and Institutional Partnerships, aligning on priorities, surfacing trade-offs, and unblocking progress - Use AI actively in your product workflow, striving for continual improvement in quality and productivity - Track and communicate progress to partners and internal teams, building the reporting rhythms that keep everyone aligned and informed Qualifications Required - 3+ years of product management experience, with at least 2 years building EdTech or Higher Education product - You've taken a concept from 0 to 1, not just iterated on an existing roadmap, but built from scratch and launched a product that achieved meaningful distribution or commercial success - You can structure ambiguous problems, build alignment across academic and technical teams, and drive execution without a clear playbook - You've worked closely with Partnerships or Customer Success teams to translate customer needs into product direction, and know what a deal-blocking product gap looks like - AI tools are already part of how you work, and you can describe specifically how your workflow has changed because of it - Strong analytical reasoning, comfortable defining metrics that matter and interpreting data to inform product decisions - You write product requirements engineers trust and can communicate product strategy clearly to technical and non-technical audiences alike Preferred - Experience in edtech or higher education products - Background working with faculty, academic administrators, or institutional buyers - Technical proficiency across the modern PM toolkit — product analytics (Mixpanel, Amplitude, Hex), prototyping and design (Figma), data querying (SQL), and AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar) - Familiarity with LMS platforms, student information systems, or academic workflow tooling Compensation CodePath has standardized salaries based on the position’s level, no matter where you live. For this role, we’re hiring for an Individual Contributor level position at an annual salary of $200,000 to $232,000. Salary is determined based on your relevant experience and skills as evaluated through our interview process. Full-Time Employee Benefits: This is a 100% remote position—work from anywhere in the U.S.! CodePath prioritizes employee well-being with a competitive benefits package to support your health, financial security, and work-life balance. - Health & Wellness: Medical, dental, and vision insurance (90% employer-covered for employees and dependents), employer-funded healthcare reimbursement, FSAs, and Employee Assistance Program - Financial Security: 401(k), employer-paid life & disability insurance, and identity theft protection - Work-Life Balance: Generous PTO, paid holidays, 10 weeks of fully paid parental leave, and an annual year-end company closure (Dec 24 – Jan 2) - Professional Growth: $1,000 annual professional development stipend and home office setup support - ​​Student Loan Forgiveness: CodePath is a qualifying employer for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), helping employees manage student loan debt - Additional Perks: Pet wellness plans, legal services, home/auto insurance discounts, and exclusive marketplace savings Pay range $200,000—$232,000 USD